Patents by Inventor Akira Horimoto
Akira Horimoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10107435Abstract: A coupling includes an engagement face included in an engagement hook which is set at an angle in a range where the engagement face is still inclined at a positive angle, which is maintained when the coupling and a counterpart coupling are in a coupling state, even if a fluid leaks as a result of opening a sealing portion of the couplings, at a state where the coupling state is maintained, or even if a hose or the like fitted to the coupling bursts when high pressure is applied to the coupling, the hose, etc., while in use.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SAKURA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 9879809Abstract: A coupling which can enhance safety will be provided, when the coupling, a hose, and the like are exposed to high pressure for some reasons or other while in use, by leaking the high pressure fluid to the outside to open a sealing portion of the coupling at a stage where the coupling condition between the couplings is maintained, and decreases the pressure. Further, the coupling can warn the operator or the like of the abnormality by ejecting a fluid from a leak path or a fluid ejection port.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: SAKURA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Akira Horimoto
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Publication number: 20170138521Abstract: A coupling has an engagement face of a engagement hook which is set at an angle in a range where the engagement face is still inclined at a positive angle to be maintained a coupling state of the couplings, even if a fluid leaks by opening the sealing portion of the couplings at a state where the coupling state is maintained or even if a hose or the like fitted to the coupling is burst when the coupling, the hose, etc., are applied the high pressure for some reason or other while in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Horimoto
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Publication number: 20170138520Abstract: A coupling which can enhance safety will be provided, when the coupling, a hose, and the like are exposed to high pressure for some reasons or other while in use, by leaking the high pressure fluid to the outside to open a sealing portion of the coupling at a stage where the coupling condition between the couplings is maintained, and decreases the pressure. Further, the coupling can warn the operator or the like of the abnormality by ejecting a fluid from a leak path or a fluid ejection port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 8676510Abstract: A pattern matching unit performs pattern matching on present data obtained this time in clinical examination of a part of a subject and previous data obtained last time in the clinical examination of the part with reference patterns. Reference patterns that are most closely approximate to the present data and the previous data are selected. A distance calculator calculates a distance between selected reference patterns. A determining unit determines whether a re-examination is necessary based on the distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignees: A&T Corporation, Kochi UniversityInventors: Tatsuhisa Watanabe, Hiromi Kataoka, Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 7926517Abstract: In a cylindrical jacket woven into twill A, the direction of a twill line A formed by a warp 2 woven continuously over a weft 3 is substantially aligned with the direction of the central axis of the cylindrical jacket.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Horimoto, Kenzou Toshiro, Kaori Kato
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Patent number: 7798537Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes projections projecting axially from circumferential positions on a distal part of an annular body, each projection having an engaging hook projecting in one circumferential direction at an end part thereof. The body and the projections are formed independently of each other, and the apparatus includes a fixing structure for fixing the projections to the positions on the distal part. After inner peripheries of the projections are placed on the outer periphery of the distal part adjacent to an outward overhang, the fixing structure is detachably fixed on the outer periphery in a side of the projections axially opposing to the overhang and has an inward tapering surface fitted on an outward tapering surface of each projection to fix the projections at the predetermined positions on the outer periphery, and includes a cutout exposing the outward tapering surface of at least one projection.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Patent number: 7674064Abstract: The coupling apparatus for structural members includes a paired couplers for coupling structural members with each other, and each coupler includes a cylindrical main body, engaging projections spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction at an end of the body and projecting along the center line of the body, and engaging hooks projecting in one circumferential direction at the projecting end portions of the projections. At least one coupler further includes a coupling direction changing mechanism which couples the at least one coupler with a predetermined position of a structural member corresponding thereto so that the center line of the body of the at least one coupler can be orientated in a desired direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto
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Publication number: 20090184518Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes projections projecting axially from circumferential positions on a distal part of an annular body, each projection having an engaging hook projecting in one circumferential direction at an end part thereof. The body and the projections are formed independently of each other, and the apparatus includes a fixing structure for fixing the projections to the positions on the distal part. After inner peripheries of the projections are placed on the outer periphery of the distal part adjacent to an outward overhang, the fixing structure is detachably fixed on the outer periphery in a side of the projections axially opposing to the overhang and has an inward tapering surface fitted on an outward tapering surface of each projection to fix the projections at the predetermined positions on the outer periphery, and includes a cutout exposing the outward tapering surface of at least one projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Publication number: 20090087256Abstract: The coupling apparatus for structural members includes a paired couplers for coupling structural members with each other, and each coupler includes a cylindrical main body, engaging projections spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction at an end of the body and projecting along the center line of the body, and engaging hooks projecting in one circumferential direction at the projecting end portions of the projections. At least one coupler further includes a coupling direction changing mechanism which couples the at least one coupler with a predetermined position of a structural member corresponding thereto so that the center line of the body of the at least one coupler can be orientated in a desired direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 7481466Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Horimoto, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Patent number: 7481467Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Horimoto, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Patent number: 7473048Abstract: The coupling apparatus for structural members includes a paired couplers for coupling structural members with each other, and each coupler includes a cylindrical main body, engaging projections spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction at an end of the body and projecting along the center line of the body, and engaging hooks projecting in one circumferential direction at the projecting end portions of the projections. At least one coupler further includes a coupling direction changing mechanism which couples the at least one coupler with a predetermined position of a structural member corresponding thereto so that the center line of the body of the at least one coupler can be orientated in a desired direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto
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Patent number: 7243953Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2004Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Publication number: 20070132233Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuhiro Yuda, Masaaki Iso, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Publication number: 20070132234Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuhiro Yuda, Masaaki Iso, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuyuki Tamada
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Publication number: 20060190195Abstract: A pattern matching unit performs pattern matching on present data obtained this time in clinical examination of a part of a subject and previous data obtained last time in the clinical examination of the part with reference patterns. Reference patterns that are most closely approximate to the present data and the previous data are selected. A distance calculator calculates a distance between selected reference patterns. A determining unit determines whether a re-examination is necessary based on the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2004Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicants: A&T CORPORATION, KOCHI UNIVERSITYInventors: Tatsuhisa Watanabe, Hiromi Kataoka, Akira Horimoto
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Publication number: 20060162954Abstract: In a cylindrical jacket woven into twill A, the direction of a twill line A formed by a warp 2 woven continuously over a weft 3 is substantially aligned with the direction of the central axis of the cylindrical jacket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: SAKURA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Horimoto, Kenzou Toshiro, Kaori Kato
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Publication number: 20050123346Abstract: The coupling apparatus for structural members includes a paired couplers for coupling structural members with each other, and each coupler includes a cylindrical main body, engaging projections spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction at an end of the body and projecting along the center line of the body, and engaging hooks projecting in one circumferential direction at the projecting end portions of the projections. At least one coupler further includes a coupling direction changing mechanism which couples the at least one coupler with a predetermined position of a structural member corresponding thereto so that the center line of the body of the at least one coupler can be orientated in a desired direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2004Publication date: June 9, 2005Applicant: SAKURA RUBBER CO., LTDInventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto
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Publication number: 20050023825Abstract: A coupling apparatus includes a pair of cylindrical coupling main bodies which are concentrically and oppositely arranged to each other and which have the same structure as to each other, liners which are accommodated in the coupling main bodies respectively, and a release preventing structure which can selectively resist a rotational force applied to the coupling main bodies coupled with each other, so that a coupling of the coupling main bodies is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicant: SAKURA RUBBER Co., LTDInventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Akira Horimoto, Kazuhiro Yuda, Masaaki Iso, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuyuki Tamada